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| Surname | Forename | Additional Authors | Unit Title | Source | Year | Media | External Link | Keywords | SSSMG Repository Link |
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| Aav | Sebastian | Adaptive Music System for DirectSound | University of Linköping Campus Norrköping | 2005 | DM (M) | https://www.diva-portal.org/smash/get/diva2:21635/FULLTEXT01.pdf | dynamic music; DirectMusic; tools; middleware | ||
| Ahlers | Michael | Musik in Videospielen: Zwischen 8-Bit-Ästhetik und adaptivem Klanggeschehen | Musikforum, Heft 2/2009, 41-44 | 2009 | AP | history; adaptive music; 8-bit; technology | |||
| Aljanaki | Anja | Frans Wiering, Remko C. Veltkamp | Studying Emotion Induced by Music through a Crowdsourcing Game | Information Processing & Management 52/1, pp. 115-28 | 2016 | AP | http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0306457315000424 | emotion; crowdsourcing; serious games; music information retrieval; Music Emotion Recognition; Geneva Emotional Music Scale | |
| Allouche | Khalid | Homam Albeiriss, Redouane Zarghoune, Juha Arrasvuori, Antti Eronen, Jukka Holm | Implementation and Evaluation of a Background Music Reactive Game | IE '07 Proceedings of the 4th Australasian conference on Interactive entertainment. RMIT University | 2007 | AS | technology; experimental; empirical; Briquolo; reactive games; game design | ||
| Alves | Valter | Licínio Roque | Guidelines for Sound Design in Computer Games | In Mark Grimshaw (ed.), Game Sound Technology and Player Interaction: Concepts and Developments (Hershey, PA), 362-383 | 2011 | AC | Sound design; enrichment; experience; intentional sound design; multi-disciplinary; emotion; context; acoustic ecology; soundscape; resonance; entrainment; sound layers | ||
| Andersson | Anders-Petter | Birgitta Cappelen | Musical Interaction for Health Improvement | In Karen Collins, Bill Kapralos, Holly Tessler (eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Interactive Audio (Oxford: Oxford University Press) | 2014 | AC | health; sound design; interaction design; tangible interaction; musicking; co-creation; disability; empowerment; music therapy | ||
| Arditi | David | Virtual Jam: A Critical Analysis of Virtual Music Game Environments | In Michael Austin (ed.), Music Video Games: Performance, Politics, and Play (London: Boomsbury) | 2016 | AC | political economy; cultural studies; popular music; internet; DAW; Pro Tools | |||
| Arnold | Matthew | Inside the Loop: The Audio Functionality of Inside | The Computer Games Journal (Online First) | 2018 | AP | https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s40869-018-0071-x | spectromorphology; immersion; sound design; musical suture | ||
| Arrasvuori | Juha | Playing and Making Music: Exploring the Similarities between Video Games and Music-Making Software | University of Tampere | 2006 | DD | music games; music-making software; ludus; paidia; Magix Music Maker; MTV Music Generator 2; eJay Clubworld; Beatmania; Amplitude; Gitaroo Man; Fluid; SingStar; Get on da Mic; 100% Star | |||
| Arsenault | Dominic | Guitar Hero: "Not like playing guitar at all"? | Loading... 2/2 | 2008 | AP | Guitar Hero; music games; interfaces; | |||
| Aslinger | Ben | Genre in Genre: The Role of Music in Music Games | DiGRA '09 - Proceedings of the 2009 DiGRA International Conference: Breaking New Ground: Innovation in Games, Play, Practice and Theory | 2009 | AS | rhythm games; Rock Band; Flow! Urban Dance Uprising; Dance Dance Revolution; Guitar Hero; genre; rock; hip-hop | |||
| Audio Mostly | Proceedings of the Audio Mostly Conference | Proceedings of the Audio Mostly Conference | 2006 to 2010 | BS | Consult individual papers | ||||
| Auerbach | Brent | Pedagogical Applications of the Video Game Dance Dance Revolution to Aural Skills Instruction | Music Theory Online 16/1 | 2010 | AP | http://www.mtosmt.org/issues/mto.10.16.1/mto.10.16.1.auerbach.html | aural skills; music theory pedagogy; rhythm; sight-reading; CAI; popular music; Dance Dance Revolution | ||
| Austin | Michael | Sample, Cycle, Sync: The Music Sequencer and Its Influence on Music Video Games | In Michael Austin (ed.), Music Video Games: Performance, Politics, and Play (London: Boomsbury) | 2016 | AP | Chiptune Runner; My Singing Monsters; sequences; interface; affordance; organology; instrument; MDA | |||
| Austin | Michael | From mixtapes to multiplayers: Sharing musical taste through video games | The Soundtrack 8/1-2 | 2015 | AP | music games; remediation; participatory culture | |||
| Austin | Michael | ’Playas’ and Players: Racial and Spatial Trespassing in Hip Hop Culture Through Video Games | In Justin D. Burton and Jason Lee Oakes (eds.), Oxford Handbook of Hip Hop Music Studies. New York: Oxford University Press | 2018 | AC | http://www.oxfordhandbooks.com/view/10.1093/oxfordhb/978019%20%20%200281090.001.0001/oxfordhb-9780190281090-e-55 | hip hop; race; digital minstrelsy; Grand Theft Auto; space; place; identity | ||
| Austin | Michael | Orchestrating Difference: Representing Gender in Video Game Music | In Nicholas Taylor and Gerald Voorhees (eds.), Masculinity at Play, London: Palgrave-Macmillan, 165-183 | 2018 | AC | http://link-springer-com-443.webvpn.jxutcm.edu.cn/chapter/10.1007/978-3-319-90581-5_10 | gender; masculinity; orchestration; instrumentation; gender bias; fantasy games; representation | ||
| Baccigalupo | Claudio | Design and Production of Audio Technologies for Video Games Development | Università degli Studi di Milano | 2003 | DM (M) | http://www2.iiia.csic.es/~claudio/papers/Baccigalupo-2003-MasterThesis-Section1.pdf | game design; history; technology; audio design | ||
| Baker | Nathan | The Music of Mario, Link, and Samus: Harmony, Form, and Meaning In Early Compositions by Koji Kondo and Hirokazu Tanaka | Analyzing the Music of Living Composers (And Others), ed. Jack Boss, Brad Osborn, Tim S. Pack, and Stephen Rodgers. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 192-217. | 2013 | AC | music analysis; Super Mario Bros.; Metroid | |||
| Baxa | John | Effects of Contingent and Non-Contingent Audio on Performance and Quality of Experience in a Role-Playing Video Game | Kalamazoo College | 2008 | DM (U) | https://cache.kzoo.edu/bitstream/handle/10920/8995/JohnBaxaSIP.pdf?.. | empirical; experimental; immersion; dynamic music | ||
| Baysted | Stephen | Palimpsest, Pragmatism and the Aesthetics of Genre Transformation: Composing the Hybrid Score to Electronic Arts' Need for Speed Shift 2: Unleashed | In Michiel Kamp, Tim Summers, Mark Sweeney (eds.), Ludomusicology: Approaches to Video Game Music (Sheffield; Bristol, CT: Equinox) | 2016 | AC | dynamic music; composition; Need for Speed Shift 2: Unleashed; popular music | |||
| Baysted | Stephen | Simulation, Squaring the Immersion, Realism, and Gameplay Circle | In Miguel Mera, Ronald Sadoff, and Ben Winters (eds), The Routledge Companion to Screen Music and Sound (New York: Routledge), 328-337 | 2017 | AC | racing; cars; immersion; realism; Need for Speed; binaural recording; headphones; sound; Project Cars | |||
| Belinkie | Matthew | Video Game Music: Not Just Kid Stuff | VGMusic.com | 1999 | EA | http://www.vgmusic.com/information/vgpaper.html | history; composer interviews; game design; technology; | ||
| Berndt | Axel | Knut Hartmann | Strategies for Narrative and Adaptive Game Scoring | Audio Mostly - 2nd Conf. on Interaction with Sound, Fraunhofer IDMT, Ilmenau, Germany, September 2007, pp. 141-147 | 2007 | AS | dynamic music; composition; narrative; generated music | ||
| Berndt | Axel | Musical Nonlinearity in Interactive Narrative Environments | In G. Scavone, V. Verfaille, and A. da Silva (eds.) The International Computer Music Conference (ICMC) 2009, McGill University, Montreal, Canada, August 2009, pp. 355-358 | 2009 | AS | dynamic music; composition; narrative; generated music; transitions; | |||
| Berndt | Axel | Diegetic Music: New Interactive Experiences | In Mark Grimshaw (ed.), Game Sound Technology and Player Interaction: Concepts and Developments (Hershey, PA), 60-76 | 2011 | AC | diegetic; diegesis; functions; implementation; nonlinearlity; controllability | |||
| Berndt | Axel | Knut Hartmann, Niklas Röber, and Maic Masuch | Composition and Arrangement Techniques for Music in Interactive Immersive Environments | In: Audio Mostly - A Conf. on Sound in Games, Interactive Institute/Sonic Studio, PiteÃ:¥, Sweden, October 2006, pp. 53-59 | 2006 | AS | dynamic music; composition; narrative; film music | ||
| Berndt | Axel | Knut Hartmann | The Functions of Music in Interactive Media | In: U. Spierling and N. Szilas (eds.) Interactive Digital Storytelling (ICIDS) 2008, Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg, University of Applied Sciences Erfurt, Germany, November 2008, pp. 126-131. | 2008 | AS | dynamic music; perception; narrative; film music; functions | ||
| Berndt | Axel | Musik für interaktive Medien: Arrangement und Interpretationstechniken | Magdeburg University | 2011 | DD | dynamic music; composition; narrative; | |||
| Bessell | David | What's That Funny Noise? An Examination of the Role of Music in Cool Boarders 2, Alien Trilogy and Medievil 2 | In Geoff King and Tanya Krzywinska (eds) Screenplay: Cinema/Videogames/Interfaces (London and New York: Wallflower) 136-144. | 2002 | AC | film music; functions; dynamic music; Cool Boarders 2; Alien Trilogy; Medievil 2 | |||
| Beverburg Reale | Steven | Transcribing Musical Worlds; or, Is L.A. Noire a Music Game? | In K. J. Donnelly, William Gibbons, Neil Lerner (eds.), Music in Video Games: Studying Play (New York; London: Routledge) | 2014 | AC | music games; L.A. Noire; analysis; BIT.TRIP; levels | |||
| Blickhan | Samantha | "Listening" Through Digital Interaction in Björk's Biophilia | In Michiel Kamp, Tim Summers, Mark Sweeney (eds.), Ludomusicology: Approaches to Video Game Music (Sheffield; Bristol, CT: Equinox) | 2016 | AC | Biophilia; music games; apps; iPad | |||
| Boer | James | Game Audio Programming | Hingham, Massachusetts: Charles River Media | 2003 | BM | game design; technology; programming | |||
| Borchers | Jan | Max Mühlhäuser | Design Patterns for Interactive Musical Systems | IEEE Multimedia 5/3 | 1998 | AP | middleware; technology; programming; WorldBeat | ||
| Böttcher | Niels | Stefania Serafin | A Review of Interactive Sound in Computer Games: Can Sound Affect the Motoric Behavior of a Player? | In Karen Collins, Bill Kapralos, Holly Tessler (eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Interactive Audio (Oxford: Oxford University Press) | 2014 | AC | procedural audio; motoric behavior; self-produced sound; motion controllers; Max/MSP; granular synthesis; realism | ||
| Boyd | Andrew | When Worlds Collide: Sound and Music in Film and Computer Games | Gamasutra: Jan 17, 2003 | 2003 | EA | http://www.gamasutra.com/view/feature/131310/when_worlds_collide_sound_and_.php | game design; film music; audio design; | ||
| Braguinski | Nikita | Ästhetisches Rauschen. Die Werteökonomie der Computerklänge | In Shift-Restore-Escape. Retrocomputing und Computerarchäologie. Stefan Höltgen (ed.). CSW, 2014. | 2014 | AC | noise; aesthetics; value; perception; retro; 8-bit | |||
| Braguinski | Nikita | RANDOM. Die Archäologie der elektronischen Spielzeugklänge | Bochum: Projekt Verlag | 2018 | BM | unpredictability; iMuse; Ballblazer; Atari; Speak and Spell | |||
| Brame | Jason | Thematic Unity Across a Video Game Series | ACT 2 | 2011 | AP | http://www.act.uni-bayreuth.de/de/archiv/2011-02/03_Brame_Thematic_Unity/index.html | music theory; Schenkerian analysis; Super Mario Bros.; Legend of Zelda; semiotics; composition; | ||
| Brandon | Alexander | Audio for Games: Planning, Process, and Production | Berkeley, CA: New Riders Games | 2005 | BM | audio design; technology | |||
| Bridgett | Rob | Contextualizing Game Audio Aesthetics | In John Richardson, Claudia Gorbman, Carol Vernallis (eds.), The Oxford Handbook of New Audiovisual Aesthetics (Oxford: Oxford University Press) | 2013 | AC | postproduction; Scarface; audio director; sound design | |||
| Bridgett | Rob | Dynamic range: subtlety and silence in video game sound | In Karen Collins (ed.) From Pac-Man to Pop Music: Interactive Audio in Games and New Media (Farnham: Ashgate), 127-134 | 2008 | AC | player control; dynamics; mixing; interactive; cultural artefact | |||
| Bridgett | Rob | From the shadows of film sound: cinematic production & creative process in video game audio: collected publications 2000-2010 | Self Published | 2010 | BM | audio design; film music; composition; technology | |||
| Bruno | Dan | Noteworthy: The Music That Influenced The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time | Killscreen 1/5 (pp. 68-70) | 2011 | AP | Legend of Zelda | |||
| Bullerjahn | Claudia | Musik in Computerspielen. Vermarktungspotenzial, Nutzung und Wirkung | In Christofer Jost, Daniel Klug, Axel Schmidt and Klaus Neumann-Braun (eds.), Populäre Music, Mediale Musik? Transdisziplinäre Beiträge zu Medien der Populären Musik, Baden-Baden: Nomos, pp. 33-59 | 2011 | AC | http://www.academia.edu/4818621/Music_in_computer_games._Potential_for_marketing_utilization_and_effect | marketing; psychology; review; pop music; dynamic music | ||
| Burrill | Derek A. | Melissa Blanco Borelli | Dancing with Myself: Dance Central, Choreography, and Embodiment | In Melissa Blanco Borelli (ed.), The Oxford Handbook of Dance and the Popular Screen (Oxford: Oxford University Press) | 2014 | AC | Dance Central; avatar bodies; choreography; Kinect; embodiment | ||
| Capacchione | Tristan | Musical Gamescapes: A Study of Unity in Arcanum: Of Steamworks and Magick Obscura | Self Published (?) | 2007 | EA | https://www.hitpages.com/doc/5071230289838080/1#pageTop | music theory; Arcanum; ludus; paidia; gamescape; | ||
| Carlsson | Anders | Chip music: low-tech data music sharing | In Karen Collins (ed.) From Pac-Man to Pop Music: Interactive Audio in Games and New Media (Farnham: Ashgate), 153-162 | 2008 | AC | chip music; demoscene; history; LP; EP; electronic music; music writing software; tracker; 8-bit | |||
| Cassidy | Gianna | Raymond MacDonald | The effects of music choice on task performance: A study of the impact of self-selected and experimenter-selected music on driving game performance and experience | Musicae Scientiae 13/2 357-386 | 2009 | AP | psychology; arousal; preference; performance; driving games | ||
| Cassidy | Gianna | Raymond MacDonald | The Role of Music in Video Games: The The Effects of Self-Selected and Experimenter-Selected Music on Driving Game Performance and Experience | Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Music Perception and Cognition, 2008, Sapporo. pp. 762–767. | 2008 | AS | immersion; experience; game design; empirical; psychology; cognition | ||
| Cerrati | Michael | Video Game Music: Where it Came From, How it is Being Used Today, and Where it is Heading Tomorrow | Vanderbilt journal of entertainment and technology law, 8/2, 293-334. | 2006 | AP | history; financial statistics; licensing; legal; marketing; | |||
| Chan | Norman | A Critical Analysis of Modern Day Video Game Audio | University of Nottingham | 2007 | DM (U) | composer interviews; Civilization IV; Grand Theft Auto; Hitman: Blood Money; dynamic music; composition; music theory; diegetic music; | |||
| Cheng | William | Role-Playing toward a Virtual Musical Democracy in The Lord of the Rings Online | Ethnomusicology 56/1, 31-62 | 2012 | AP | virtual ethnography; Lord of the Rings Online | |||
| Cheng | William | Monstrous Noise: Silent Hill and the Aesthetic Economies of Fear | In Carol Vernallis, Amy Herzog, John Richardson (ed.), The Oxford Handbook of Sound and Image in Digital Media (Oxford: Oxford University Press) | 2013 | AC | Silent Hill; horror; noise; industrial music | |||
| Cheng | William | Acoustemologies of the Closet | In Mark Grimshaw (ed.), The Oxford Handbook of Virtuality (Oxford, Oxford University Press), 337-48 | 2014 | AC | virtual ethnography; online voice communication; gender; identity; sexual politics | |||
| Cheng | William | Afterword--Toadofsky's Music Lessons | In Michael Austin (ed.), Music Video Games: Performance, Politics, and Play (London: Boomsbury) | 2016 | AC | Super Mario RPG: Legend of the Seven Stars; musicality; music games; affordance | |||
| Cheng | William | Sound Play: Video Games and the Musical Imagination | Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press | 2014 | BM | aesthetics; virtual ethnography; Fallout 3; Final Fantasy VI; Silent Hill; Lord of the Rings Online; Team Fortress 2; concerts | |||
| Childs IV | G. W. | Creating Music and Sound for Games | Boston, MA: Thompson Course Technology | 2007 | BM | composition; sound design; design process; middleware; dynamic music; | |||
| Chung | Szu-Ming | Chun-Tsai Wu | Designing Music Games and Mobile Apps for Early Music Learning | In Serious Games and Edutainment Applications, Volume II. Minhua Ma, Andreas Oikonomou (eds.). Cham: Springer | 2017 | AC | rhythm games; early music learning; android; apps | ||
| Collins | Karen | From Pac-Man to Pop Music: Interactive Audio in Games and New Media | Aldershot, Hampshire and Burlington, VT: Ashgate | 2008 | BC | See individual entries | |||
| Collins | Karen | Game Sound: An Introduction to the History, Theory and Practice of Video Game Music and Sound Design | Cambridge, Mass. and London: MIT Press | 2008 | BM | history; technology; console hardware; aesthetics; dynamic music; composition; | |||
| Collins | Karen | An Introduction to Procedural Audio in Video Games | Contemporary Music Review: Special Issue on Generative Audio, 28/1, 5-15 | 2009 | AP | technology; composition; procedural audio; dynamic music | |||
| Collins | Karen | From Bits to Hits: Video Games Music Changes its Tune | Film International, 12, 4-19 | 2005 | AP | history; composition; dynamic music; music games; technology; console hardware | |||
| Collins | Karen | An Introduction to the Participatory and Non-Linear Aspects of Video Game Audio | In Hawkins, Stan and John Richardson (eds), Essays on Sound and Vision (Helsinki: Helsinki University Press), 263-298 | 2007 | AC | dynamic music; diegesis; composition; transitions; functions; Legend of Zelda; Grim Fandango; immersion; | |||
| Collins | Karen | Implications of Interactivity: What Does it Mean for Sound to be “Interactive”? | In John Richardson, Claudia Gorbman, Carol Vernallis (eds.), The Oxford Handbook of New Audiovisual Aesthetics (Oxford: Oxford University Press) | 2013 | AC | interactivity; feedback; control mechanisms; sound production; digital aesthetics; new media | |||
| Collins | Karen | Introduction | In Karen Collins (ed.) From Pac-Man to Pop Music: Interactive Audio in Games and New Media (Farnham: Ashgate), 1-10 | 2008 | AC | history; game research; | |||
| Collins | Karen | Holly Tessler, Kevin Harrigan, Michael J. Dixon, Jonathan Fugelsang | Sound in Electronic Gambling Machines: A Review of the Literature and its Relevance to Game Sound | In Mark Grimshaw (ed.), Game Sound Technology and Player Interaction: Concepts and Developments (Hershey, PA), 1-21 | 2011 | AC | EGMs; electronic gambling machines; arcade; advertising; gambling; casino; environment; physiology; sound; film; television | ||
| Collins | Karen | Breaking the Fourth Wall? User-Generated Sonic Content in Virtual Worlds | In Mark Grimshaw (ed.), The Oxford Handbook of Virtuality (Oxford, Oxford University Press) | 2014 | AC | multi-player; fourth wall; user-generated content; immersion; participation; magic circle | |||
| Collins | Karen | A History of Handheld and Mobile Video Game Sound | In Sumanth Gopinath, Jason Stanyek (eds.) The Oxford Handbook of Mobile Music Studies, Vol. 2 (Oxford Oxford University Press) | 2014 | AC | handheld consoles; technological constraints; sound chips; mobile phones; media convergence | |||
| Collins | Karen | Grand Theft Audio?: Popular Music and Interactive Games | Music and the Moving Image 1/1 | 2008 | AP | popular music; licensing; history; | |||
| Collins | Karen | Video Games Killed the Cinema Star | Music, Sound and the Moving Image, 1/1, 15-20 | 2007 | AP | video game music studies; influence; | |||
| Collins | Karen | Flat Twos and the Musical Aesthetic of the Atari VCS | Popular Musicology Online, 1 | 2006 | AP | technology; composition; Atari VCS; console hardware; aesthetics; chip music; 8-bit; | |||
| Collins | Karen | S. Ashby, T. Bush, J. Daoust, N. Duveau, J. Lewis, C. Robinson, T. White, G. Whitmore | Overcoming Roadblocks in the Quest for Interactive Audio | Project Bar-B-Q report 2007 | 2007 | AS | technology; composition; dynamic music; audio design; | ||
| Collins | Karen | Loops and Bloops: Music on the Commodore 64 | Soundscape: Journal of Media Culture, 8/1 | 2006 | AP | technology; composition; Commodore 64; console hardware; aesthetics; dynamic music; 8-bit; | |||
| Collins | Karen | In the Loop: Confinements and Creativity in 8-bit Games | Twentieth-Century Music, 4/2, 209-227 | 2007 | AP | technology; composition; history; console hardware; 8-bit; | |||
| Collins | Karen | Ruth Dockwray | Drive, Speed, and Narrative in the Soundscapes of Racing Games | In Miguel Mera, Ronald Sadoff, and Ben Winters (eds), The Routledge Companion to Screen Music and Sound (New York: Routledge), 400-411 | 2017 | AC | cars; realism; authenticity; narration; aesthetics; Forza; Gran Turismo; Need for Speed; recording | ||
| Collins | Karen | Game Sound in the Mechanical Arcades: An Audio Archaeology | Game Studies 16/1 | 2016 | AP | audio; mechanical; Victorian; archaeology; sound; history; recording | |||
| Cook | Karen M. | Music, History, and Progress in Sid Meier's Civilization IV | In K. J. Donnelly, William Gibbons, Neil Lerner (eds.), Music in Video Games: Studying Play (New York; London: Routledge) | 2014 | AC | Civilization IV; music history; classical music | |||
| Cook | James | Playing with the Past in the Imagined Middle Ages: Music and Soundscape in Video Game | In Dorothy Kim and Christopher Roman (eds.), Sounding Out! 'Theme: Medieval Soundscapes'. 3 October 2016. | 2016 | EA | https://soundstudiesblog.com/2016/10/03/playing-with-the-past-in-the-imagined-middle-ages-music-and-soundscape-in-video-game/ | Medievalism; early music; fantasy; high fantasy; social structure; sonic; representations of the past | ||
| Cook | Karen | Beyond the Grave: The “Dies Irae” in Video Game Music | Sounding Out! | 2017 | BG | https://soundstudiesblog.com/2017/12/18/beyond-the-grave-the-dies-irae-in-video-game-music/ | chant; dies irae; medievalism | ||
| Cook | Karen | Beyond (the) Halo: Plainchant in Video Games | Studies in Medievalism XXVII: Authenticity, Medievalism, Music | 2018 | AC | http://medievalism.net/?page_id=55 | chant; plainchant; halo; medievalism | ||
| Costello | Brigid Mary | Rhythmic Entrainment in Games | In Serious Games: Second Joint International Conference, JCSG 2016, Brisbane, QLD, Australia, September 26-27, 2016, Proceedings (Marsh, T., Ma, M., Oliveira, M. F., Baalsrud Hauge, J. & Göbel, S. eds.) | 2016 | AS | rhythm games; entrainment; serious games | |||
| Crathorne | Pieter | Video game genres and their music | University of Stellenbosch | 2010 | DM (M) | http://scholar.sun.ac.za/bitstream/handle/10019.1/4355/Crathorne,+P.J.pdf?sequence=1 | genre; art music; film music; music theory; | ||
| Cunningham | Stuart | Vic Grout, Rich Picking | Emotion, Content, and Context in Sound and Music | in Mark Grimshaw (ed.), Game Sound Technology and Player Interaction: Concepts and Developments (Hershey, PA), 235-263 | 2011 | AC | Sound artefacts; information; processing; meaning; purpose; emotion; content analysis; context | ||
| Cury | Mónica Moreira | La Música de los Videojuegos: Modalidades de Uso y Su Relación Con El Imaginario Social. Un Estudio Sobre La Banda Sonora Del Juego: Final Fantasy VI' | University of Chile | 2004 | DM (M) | function; social implications; film music; Final Fantasy VII | |||
| Custodis | Michael | Playing with Music - Featuring Sound in Games | In Moormann, Peter (ed.), Music and Game: Perspectives on a Popular Alliance (Wiesbaden: Springer VS) | 2013 | AC | ||||
| D’Errico | Mike | Worlds of Sound: Indie Games, Proceduralism, and the Aesthetics of Emergence | Music, Sound, and the Moving Image 9/2 | 2015 | AP | https://online.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/abs/10.3828/msmi.2015.13 | indie; sound design; generative music; procedural music; Fract OSC; Proteus | ||
| DeCastro | Daniel | Quality Video Game Music Scores, Considering the Standards Set, and Personal Reflections | New York University | 2007 | DM (M) | http://www.vgmusic.com/information/vgpaper3.html | composition; aesthetics; music education; concerts; | ||
| Demers | Joanna | Dancing machines: :Dance Dance Revolution', cybernetic dance, and musical taste | Popular Music 25/3, 401-414 | 2006 | AP | music games; society; subcultures; Dance Dance Revolution; popular music; dance | |||
| D'Errico | Mike | How To Reformat The Planet: Technostalgia And The “Live” Performance Of Chipmusic | Journal on the Art of Record Production 6 | 2012 | AP | chiptune; ethnography; tracker interfaces; Game Boy; Bitshifter | |||
| d'Escrivan | Julio | Electronic Music and the Moving Image | In Nick Collins and Julio d'Escrivan (eds.), The Cambridge Companion to Electronic Music (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press), 156-170. | 2007 | AC | film music; electronic music; audio design; composition; television music; | |||
| Deutsch | Stephen | Music for Interactive Moving Pictures | In Larry Sider, Diane Freeman and Jerry Sider (eds.) Soundscape: The School of Sound Lectures 1998-2001 (London and New York: Wallflower Press) 28-34. | 2003 | AC | film music; history; composition; electronic music; transitions; | |||
| Diaz-Gasca | Juan Sebastian | Music Beyond Gameplay: Motivators in the Consumption of Videogame Soundtracks | Queensland Conservatorium of Music, Griffith University | 2015 | DD | https://www120.secure.griffith.edu.au/rch/items/839fcd41-d5de-49eb-b062-955fa92c23b1/1/ | soundtrack; narrative; marketing; sociocultural; nostalgia; consumption; themes; associations; fandom | ||
| Diaz-Gasca | Sebastian | Super Smash Covers!: Performance and audience engagement in Australian videogame music cover bands | Perfect Beat 19/1 | 2018 | AP | https://journals.equinoxpub.com/index.php/PB/article/view/34525 | Australian cover bands; Boss Fight; The Consouls; performance; fan studies | ||
| Dibben | Nicola | Visualizing the App Album with Björk’s Biophilia | In Carol Vernallis, Amy Herzog, John Richardson (ed.), The Oxford Handbook of Sound and Image in Digital Media (Oxford: Oxford University Press) | 2013 | AC | music app; music album; interactivity; multisensory; Björk; Biophilia | |||
| Dittbrenner | Nils | Soundchip-Musik Computer- und Videospielmusik von 1977-1994 | Universität Lüneburg | 2005 | DM (M) | history; console hardware; technology; composition; 8-bit; dynamic music; chip music; | |||
| Dockwray | Ruth | Karen Collins | A Symphony of Sound: Surround Sound in Formula One Racing Games | In Paul Théberge, Kyle Devine, Tom Everett (eds.), Living Stereo: Histories and Cultures of Multichannel Sound, New York; London: Bloomsbury | 2015 | AC | racing game; Formula One; surround sound; sound effects; Low Frequency Effects | ||
| Dolphin | Andrew | Defining Sound Toys: Play as Composition | In Karen Collins, Bill Kapralos, Holly Tessler (eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Interactive Audio (Oxford: Oxford University Press) | 2014 | AC | sound toys; open work; instruments; spectromorphology; generative systems | |||
| Donnelly | K.J. | Lawn of the Dead: The Indifference of Musical Destiny in Plants vs. Zombies | In K. J. Donnelly, William Gibbons, Neil Lerner (eds.), Music in Video Games: Studying Play (New York; London: Routledge) | 2014 | AC | Plants vs. Zombies; dynamic music; anempathetic music; horror games | |||
| Donnelly | K.J. | Emotional Sound Effects and Metal Machine Music: Soundworlds in Silent Hill Games and Films | In The Palgrave Handbook of Sound Design and Music in Screen Media: Integrated Soundtracks. Liz Greene, Danijela Kulezic-Wilson (eds.). London: Palgrave Macmillan | 2016 | AC | Silent Hill; adaptations; film; unified soundtracks | |||
| Dozal | Mario A. | Consumerism Hero: The "Selling Out" of Guitar Hero and Rock Band | In Michael Austin (ed.), Music Video Games: Performance, Politics, and Play (London: Boomsbury) | 2016 | AC | rock; political economy; authenticity; Guitar Hero; Rock Band; rhythm game; commodification; conspicuous consumption | |||
| Drescher | Peter | Could ringtones be more annoying? | In Karen Collins (ed.) From Pac-Man to Pop Music: Interactive Audio in Games and New Media (Farnham: Ashgate), 47-54 | 2008 | AC | transfer; sonic quality; future; MP3; technology; customization | |||
| Driscoll | Kevin | Joshua Diaz | Endless Loop: A Brief history of Chiptunes | Transformative Works and Cultures 2 | 2009 | AP | 8-bit; demo scene; participatory culture; sampling | ||
| Droumeva | Milena | An Acoustic Communication Framework for Game Sound: Fidelity, Verisimilitude, Ecology | In Mark Grimshaw (ed.), Game Sound Technology and Player Interaction: Concepts and Developments (Hershey, PA), 131-152 | 2011 | AC | Fidelity; verisimilitude; acoustic realism; communication; patterns of listening; acoustic communities; ecology; listening modes; attentional stances; soundscapes; culture | |||
| Ekman | Inger | Petri Lankoski | Hair-Raising Entertainment: Emotions, Sound, and Structure in Silent Hill 2 and Fatal Frame | In Bernard Perron (ed), Horror Video Games: Essays on the Fusion of Fear and Play (Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Co), 181-199. | 2009 | AC | perception; emotion; Silent Hill 2; Fatal Frame; threat | ||
| Ekman | Inger | A Cognitive Approach to the Emotional Function of Game Sound | In Karen Collins, Bill Kapralos, Holly Tessler (eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Interactive Audio (Oxford: Oxford University Press) | 2014 | AC | nonmusical sound; emotion; affect; embodied cognition; narrative | |||
| Erbe | Marcus | Mundane Sounds in Miraculous Realms: An Auditory Analysis of Fantastical Games | In Moormann, Peter (ed.), Music and Game: Perspectives on a Popular Alliance (Wiesbaden: Springer VS), 125-146 | 2013 | AC | fantastical games; mundane; | |||
| Eyles | Mark | Dan Pinchbeck | Playful Ambience | DiGRA '11 - Proceedings of the 2011 DiGRA International Conference: Think Design Play | 2011 | AS | ambient music; Brian Eno; gamification; Ford Fusion Hybrid | ||
| Farnell | Andy | Behaviour, Structure and Causality in Procedural Audio | In Mark Grimshaw (ed.), Game Sound Technology and Player Interaction: Concepts and Developments (Hershey, PA), 313-339 | 2011 | AC | Procedural audio; historical; philosophical; commercial; technological; sound synthesis; virtual world; interactivity; real-time; computation | |||
| Farnell | Andy | An introduction to procedural audio and its application in computer games. | Self Published | 2007 | EA | http://cs.au.dk/~dsound/DigitalAudio.dir/Papers/proceduralAudio.pdf | procedural audio; composition; perception; technology | ||
| Fay | Todd M. | Scott Selfon and Todor J. Fay | DirectX 9 Audio Exposed: Interactive Audio Development | Plano, Texas: Wordware | 2004 | BC | composition; audio design; technology; DirectMusic; middleware | ||
| Fleshner | Nathan | Pitching the Rhythm: Music Games for the iPad | In Michael Austin (ed.), Music Video Games: Performance, Politics, and Play (London: Boomsbury) | 2016 | AC | rhythm; Groove Coaster; Tone Sphere; iPad; music theory; composition; Soundrop; music games | |||
| Franklin | Janice | Video Game Audio: Music? | AAA-TAC: Acoustical, art and artifacts"Technology, aesthetics, communication. Vol. 1 | 2004 | AP | interviews; perception; dynamic music; reviews; journalism; | |||
| Friberg | Johnny | Dan Gärdenfors | Audio Games: New perspectives on game audio | Paper presented at the" ACE conference 2004, Singapore, June 2004 | 2004 | AS | audio games; game design; audio design; Mudsplat; X-tune; Tim's Journey; perception; | ||
| Fritsch | Melanie | Musik spielen - Computerspiele und Musik | ACT 2 | 2011 | AP | http://www.act.uni-bayreuth.de/de/archiv/2011-02/01_editorial/index.html | history; Video Games Live; Civilization IV; awards; Scott Pilgrim vs. the World | ||
| Fritsch | Melanie | Worlds of Music: Strategies for Creating Music-based Experiences in Videogames | In Karen Collins, Bill Kapralos, Holly Tessler (eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Interactive Audio (Oxford: Oxford University Press) | 2014 | AC | gameplay pattern; rhythm games; virtual world; narrative; experience; gestalt theory; Brütal Legend; Eternal Sonata; Vib-Ribbon | |||
| Fritsch | Melanie | Beat it!--Playing the "King of Pop" in Video Games | In Michael Austin (ed.), Music Video Games: Performance, Politics, and Play (London: Boomsbury) | 2016 | AC | Michael Jackson; performance studies; stardom; Michael Jackson's Moonwalker | |||
| Fritsch | Melanie | "It's a-me, Mario!": Playing with Video Game Music | In Michiel Kamp, Tim Summers, Mark Sweeney (eds.), Ludomusicology: Approaches to Video Game Music (Sheffield; Bristol, CT: Equinox) | 2016 | AC | literacy; fandom; participatory culture; Super Mario Bros.: The 8-Bit Opera | |||
| Fritsch | Melanie | History of Video Game Music | In Moormann, Peter (ed.), Music and Game: Perspectives on a Popular Alliance (Wiesbaden: Springer VS), 11-41 | 2013 | AC | ||||
| Fritsch | Melanie | Live Performance Games? - Musikalische Bewegung sehen, hören und spielen. | In Schroedter, Stephanie (ed.), "Bewegungen zwischen Hören und Sehen: Denkbewegungen über Bewegungskünste", Würzburg: Königshausen & Neumann, 2012; p. 609-624. | 2012 | AC | ||||
| Fritsch | Melanie | Stefan Strötgen | Relatively Live: How to Identify Live Music Performances | Music and the Moving Image 5/1, 2012 (March) | 2012 | AP | |||
| Fritsch | Melanie | Musik | in Benjamin Beil, Thomas Hensel, Andreas Rauscher (eds.), Game Studies (Wiesbaden: Springer VS), 87-107 | 2017 | AC | https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-658-13498-3_5 | history; composition; introductoin; overview; Left 4 Dead | ||
| Fritsch | Melanie | Musik und Computerspiele, oder: Wie das »Ludo-« in die Musikologie kam | in Christoph Hust (ed.) Digitale Spiele Interdisziplinäre Perspektiven zu Diskursfeldern, Inszenierung und Musik (Bielefeld: Transcript Verlag) 385-396 | 2018 | AC | http://www.transcript-verlag.de/978-3-8376-4002-1/digitale-spiele/ | performance; overview; theory; history | ||
| Fritsch | Melanie | Performing Bytes. Musikperformances der Computerspielkultur | Würzburg: Köningshausen & Neumann | 2018 | BM | https://www.verlag-koenigshausen-neumann.de/product_info.php/info/p9039_Performing-Bytes--Musikperformances-der-Performing-Bytes--Musikperformances-der-Computerspielkultur---br--Thurnauer-Schriften-zum-Musiktheater--Band-35-.html | performance; performativity; theory; history; Japan; fan studies; GameFilk; chip music; Tetsuya Mizuguchi; Koji Kondo; Nobuo Uematsu; Super Mario Bros; Final Fantasy VI; Geemu Ongaku; ludomusicology | ||
| Furlong | Cian | Computer Game Music - A Multifunctional Medium | University College Dublin | 2004 | DM (U) | https://danielrparente.files.wordpress.com/2012/04/computer_game_music_-_a_multifunctional_medium.pdf | composition; Super Mario Bros.; film music; marketing; function | ||
| Gallacher | Susan | The Sounds of Skyrim: A Musical Journey Through Gaming | In Angela Cresswell Jones and Rebbecca Jane Bennett (eds.), The Digital Evolution of Live Music (Waltham, MA; Kidlington: Chandos), pp. 99-106 | 2015 | AC | Liveness; Skyrim | |||
| Ganiti | Aikaterini | Nikolaos Politopoulos, Thrasyvoulos Tsiatsos | The Impact of Background Music on an Active Video Game | In Interactive Mobile Communication Technologies and Learning: Proceedings of the 11th IMCL Conference. Michael E. Auer, Thrasyvoulos Tsiatsos (eds.) | 2018 | AS | background music; emotions; Tennis Attack; Kinect | ||
| Garner | Tom A. | Mark Grimshaw | Sonic Virtuality: Understanding Audio in a Virtual World | In Mark Grimshaw (ed.), The Oxford Handbook of Virtuality (Oxford, Oxford University Press) | 2014 | AC | embodied cognition; imagination; acoustic ecology; virtuality; reality | ||
| Gersic | Thomas E. | Playing and the Past: Toward a New Sound for Games | In Zach Whalen and Laurie N. Taylor (eds.), Playing the Past: History and Nostalgia in Video Games, Nashville TN: Vanderbilt University Press. | 2008 | AC | sound design; Digital Audio Workstation; Resident Evil O; Hitchcock; diegetic sound effects; generative music | |||
| Gibbons | William | Wrap Your Troubles in Dreams: Popular Music, Narrative, and Dystopia in Bioshock | Game Studies 11/3 | 2011 | AP | http://gamestudies.org/1103/articles/gibbons | popular music; perception; Bioshock; narrative; licensed music; irony | ||
| Gibbons | William | Wandering Tonalities: Silence, Sound, and Morality in Shadow of the Colossus | In K. J. Donnelly, William Gibbons, Neil Lerner (eds.), Music in Video Games: Studying Play (New York; London: Routledge) | 2014 | AC | Shadow of the Colossus; silence; dynamic music | |||
| Gibbons | William | Remixed Metaphors: Manipulating Classical Music and its Meanings in Video Games | In Michiel Kamp, Tim Summers, Mark Sweeney (eds.), Ludomusicology: Approaches to Video Game Music (Sheffield; Bristol, CT: Equinox) | 2016 | AC | classical music; Gyruss; Fez; Boom Boom Rocket; Catherine | |||
| Gibbons | William | Blip, Bloop, Bach? Some Uses of Classical Music on the Nintendo Entertainment System | Music and the Moving Image 2/1, 40-52 | 2009 | AP | classical music; NES; composition; Battle of Olympus; Captain Comic; Pirates!; Tetris; politics; imagery; Folk Tunes; Tchaikovsky; Bach; Handel; Mozart; pre-existing music | |||
| Gibbons | William | Music, Genre, and Nationality in the Postmillenial Fantasy Role-Playing Game | In Miguel Mera, Ronald Sadoff, and Ben Winters (eds), The Routledge Companion to Screen Music and Sound (New York: Routledge), 412-427 | 2017 | AC | RPG; JRPG; Inon Zur; Elder Scrolls; Nobuo Uematsu; Koichi Sugiyama; Jeremy Soule; The Witcher; narrative; game type | |||
| Gibbons | William | Unlimited Replays: Video Games and Classical Music | Oxford: Oxford University Press | 2018 | BM | classical music; Chopin; BioShock: Infinite; Civilization IV | |||
| Gibbons | William | The Sounds in the Machine: Hirokazu Tanaka's Cybernetic Soundscape for Metroid | In The Palgrave Handbook of Sound Design and Music in Screen Media: Integrated Soundtracks. Liz Greene, Danijela Kulezic-Wilson (eds.). London: Palgrave Macmillan | 2016 | AC | Metroid; sound design; Forbidden Planet; art music; NES | |||
| Gibbons | William | Little harmonic labyrinths: Baroque musical style on the Nintendo Entertainment System | In James Cook, Alexander Kolassa, Adam Whittaker (eds.), Recomposing the Past: Representations of Early Music on Stage and Screen (New York: Routledge) | 2018 | AC | https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/e/9781351975520/chapters/10.4324%2F9781315268255-9 | Nintendo Entertainment System; Dragon Warrior; baroque music; aesthetics; medievalism | ||
| Greenfield-Casas | Stefan | Between Worlds: Musical Allegory in Final Fantasy X | The University of Texas at Austin | 2017 | DM (M) | https://www.academia.edu/33912037/Between_Worlds_Musical_Allegory_in_Final_Fantasy_X | Final Fantasy; Kingdom Hearts; Nobuo Uematsu; hyperreal; simulation; antitheism; replay value; tonality | ||
| Greenfield-Casas | Stefan | Playing with Time in the Zodiac Age | Musicology Now | 2017 | AG | http://musicologynow.ams-net.org/2017/08/playing-with-time-in-zodiac-age.html?m=1 | Hitoshi Sakimoto; Final Fantasy; Bakhtin; temporality; grinding; boss battles; chronotope | ||
| Grethe | Mitchell | Andrew Clarke | Videogame Music: Chiptunes Byte Back? | DiGRA '07 - Proceedings of the 2007 DiGRA International Conference: Situated Play | 2007 | AS | chiptune; 8-bit music; subculture | ||
| Grimshaw | Mark | Game Sound: Game Sound Technology and Player Interaction: Concepts and Developments | Hershey, Pa: Information Science Reference | 2010 | BC | See individual entries | |||
| Grimshaw | Mark | Tom A. Garner | Embodied Virtual Acoustic Ecologies of Computer Games | In Karen Collins, Bill Kapralos, Holly Tessler (eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Interactive Audio (Oxford: Oxford University Press) | 2014 | AC | embodied cognition; emotion; affect; biofeedback; psychophysiology; acoustic ecology | ||
| Grimshaw | Mark | Sound and Player Immersion in Digital Games | In Trevor Pinch and Karin Bijsterveld (eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Sound Studies (Oxford Oxford University Press) | 2011 | AC | first-person shooter; sound; immersion; real world; virtual world | |||
| Grimshaw | Mark | Gareth Schott | A Conceptual Framework for the Analysis of First-Person Shooter Audio and its Potential Use for Game Engines | International Journal of Computer Games Technology | 2008 | AP | perception; ecology; first-person shooter; audio design; affordance | ||
| Grimshaw | Mark | Craig A. Lindley, Lennart Nacke | Sound and Immersion in the First-Person Shooter | International Journal of Intelligent Games & Simulation 5/1 | 2008 | AP | first-person shooter; audio design; immersion; procedural audio; technology | ||
| Grimshaw | Mark | Craig A. Lindley, Lennart Nacke | Sound and Immersion in the First-Person Shooter:Mixed Measurement of the Player's Sonic Experience | Proceedings of Audio Mostly 2008 | 2008 | AS | first-person shooter; audio design; immersion; procedural audio; technology | ||
| Grimshaw | Mark | The Acoustic Ecology of the First-Person Shooter: The Player Experience of Sound in the First-Person Shooter Computer Game | Saarbrücken: VDM Verlag Dr. Mueller | 2008 | BM | perception; ecology; first-person shooter; audio design; Urban Terror; soundscape; affordance; Gibson; space | |||
| Grimshaw | Mark | Gareth Schott | Situating Gaming as a Sonic Experience: The acoustic ecology of First-Person Shooters | Situated Play (2007) Proceedings of DIGRA, Digital Games Research Association, September 24-28, 2007, Tokyo, Japan | 2007 | AS | perception; ecology; first-person shooter; audio design; soundscape; affordance | ||
| Grimshaw | Mark | The Acoustic Ecology of the First-Person Shooter | University of Waikato | 2007 | DD | perception; ecology; first-person shooter; audio design; Urban Terror; soundscape; affordance; Gibson; space | |||
| Grimshaw | Mark | Siu-Lan Tan, Scott D. Lipscomb | Playing with Sound: The Role of Music and Sound Effects in Gaming | In Tan, Siu-Lan, Cohen, Annabel J. Cohen, Scott D. Lipscomb, Roger A. Kendall (eds.), The Psychology of Music in Multimedia | 2013 | AC | psychology; sound design; cognitive load; review; technology | ||
| Guerraz | Agnes | Jacques Lemordant | Indeterminate adaptive digital audio for games on mobiles | In Karen Collins (ed.) From Pac-Man to Pop Music: Interactive Audio in Games and New Media (Farnham: Ashgate), 55-72 | 2008 | AC | mobiles; portable; API; audio formats; AMML; interactive; 3D audio; iXMF; programmatic control | ||
| Hart | Iain | Meaningful Play: Performativity, Interactivity and Semiotics in Video Game Music | Musicology Australia, 36/2, pp. 273-290 | 2014 | AP | http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/08145857.2014.958272 | ludomusicology; performativity; interactivity; semiology; semiotics; music; expression; text; gameplay | ||
| Hart | Iain | Hard Boiled Music: The Case of L.A. Noire | Screen Sound, n5 | 2015 | AP | http://www.screensoundjournal.org/issues/n5/06.%20SSJ%20n5%20Hart.pdf | film noir; neo-noir; period noir; hard-boiled detective fiction; jazz; jeu noir | ||
| Harvey | Trevor S. | Virtual Worlds: An Ethnomusicological Perspective | In Mark Grimshaw (ed.), The Oxford Handbook of Virtuality (Oxford, Oxford University Press) | 2014 | AC | virtual worlds; Second Life; musical personas; identity; avatars; ethnography | |||
| Havryliv | Mark | Emiliano Vergara-Richards | From Battle Metris to Symbiotic Symphony: A New Model for Musical Games | University of Wollongong Research Online | 2006 | AS | http://ro.uow.edu.au/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1027&context=creartspapers | music games; Battle Metris; gamification; John Cage; Iannis Xenakis; game design; | |
| Hébert | Sylvie | Renée Béland, Odrée Dionne-Fournelle, Martine Crête, Sonia J. Lupien | Physiological Stress Response to Video-Game Playing: The Contribution of Built-in Music | Life Sciences 76/20, pp. 2371-80 | 2005 | AP | psychology; Quake III Arena; stress; experiment | ||
| Herber | Norbert | The composition-instrument: emergence, improvisation and interaction in games and new media | in Karen Collins (ed.) From Pac-Man to Pop Music: Interactive Audio in Games and New Media (Farnham: Ashgate), 103-123 | 2008 | AC | Spore; Brian Eno; sound garden; interaction; art music; electroplankton; minimalism | |||
| Hermans | Phillip | Cooperation and Competition in Music Composition | Dartmouth College | 2013 | DM (M) | http://gradworks.umi.com/15/64/1564117.html | music composition; games; consensus protocol; agent-based modeling; music education | ||
| Herz | J. C. | Joystick Nation: How Videogames Gobbled Our Money, Won Our Hearts and Rewired Our Minds | London: Abacus | 1997 | BM | History; sound effects; technology development (causal); regional differences of composition; early composition styles | |||
| Herzfeld | Gregor | Atmospheres at Play: Aesthetical Considerations of Game Music | In Moormann, Peter (ed.), Music and Game: Perspectives on a Popular Alliance (Wiesbaden: Springer VS) | 2013 | AC | ||||
| Hoffert | Paul | Music for New Media: Composing for Videogames, Web Sites, Presentations, and other Interactive Media | Boston, MA: Berklee Press | 2007 | BM | Composition; technology; middleware; | |||
| Holtar | Nils Iver | Mark J. Nelson, and Julian Togelius | Audioverdrive: Exploring bidirectional communication between music and gameplay | Proceedings of the 2013 International Computer Music Conference | 2013 | AS | Composition; bidirectional ; interactive; dynamic music | ||
| Höltgen | Stefan | Play that Pokey Music: Computer Archeological Gaming with Vintage Sound Chips | The Computer Games Journal (Online First) | 2018 | AP | https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s40869-018-0068-5 | sound chip; archaeology; retrocomputing; history | ||
| Hoover | Tom | Keeping Score: Interviews with Today's Top Film, Television and Game Music Composers | Boston: Course Technology | 2010 | BM | Composition; interviews; Marty O'Donnell; Winifred Phillips; Inon Zur; Cris Velasco; Jesper Kyd; Jason Graves | |||
| Hug | Daniel | New Wine in New Skins: Sketching the Future of Game Sound Design | In Mark Grimshaw (ed.), Game Sound Technology and Player Interaction: Concepts and Developments (Hershey, PA), 384-415 | 2011 | AC | Technology; development; Hollywood; naturalism; reality; liberation; soundtrack; aesthetics | |||
| Hugill | Andrew | Panos Amelides | Audio-only computer games: 'Papa Sangre' | Emmerson, S and Landy, L, eds. Expanding the horizon of electroacoustic music analysis. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, pp. 355-375. | 2016 | AC | electroacoustic music; audio games; Papa Sangre | ||
| Ivanescu | Andra | Torched song: The hyperreal and the music of L.A. Noire | The Soundtrack 8/1-2 | 2015 | AP | semiotics; hyperreal; narrative; preexisting music; L.A. Noire; popular music | |||
| Ivănescu | Andra | Beneath a Steel Sky: A Musical Characterisation of Class Structure | The Computer Games Journal (Online First) | 2018 | AP | https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s40869-018-0067-6 | Beneath a Steel Sky; semiotics; social class; environmental storytelling | ||
| Jenson | Jennifer | Suzanne de Castell, Nicholas Taylor, Milena Droumeva, Stephanie Fisher | The Gigue is Up: High Culture Gets Game | DiGRA '09 - Proceedings of the 2009 DiGRA International Conference: Breaking New Ground: Innovation in Games, Play, Practice and Theory | 2009 | AS | Tafelkids: The Quest for Arundo Donax; Baroque music; music education | ||
| Jørgensen | Kristine | "What are these Grunts and Growls over there?" Computer Game Audio and Player Action | Copenhagen University | 2007 | DD | film music; ecology; perception; interviews; diegesis; transdiegesis | |||
| Jørgensen | Kristine | Audio and Gameplay: An Analysis of PvP Battlegrounds in World of Warcraft | Game Studies 8/2 | 2008 | AP | World of Warcraft; earcons; transdiegesis; ecology; function | |||
| Jørgensen | Kristine | Left in the dark: playing computer games with the sound turned off | In Karen Collins (ed.) From Pac-Man to Pop Music: Interactive Audio in Games and New Media (Farnham: Ashgate), 163-176 | 2008 | AC | sound; information; Warcraft III; psychology; sound off; information; Hitman Contracts; stealth; strategy; player responses; empirical; information; orientation; space; virtual world | |||
| Jørgensen | Kristine | Time for New Terminology? Diegetic and Non-Diegetic Sounds in Computer Games Revisited | In Mark Grimshaw (ed.), Game Sound Technology and Player Interaction: Concepts and Developments (Hershey, PA), 78-97 | 2011 | AC | Diegesis; non-diegetic; diegetic; fictionality; terminology; spatial; space; gameworlds | |||
| Jørgensen | Kristine | On the Functional Aspects of Computer Game Audio | In Proceedings of the Audio Mostly Conference. Interactive Institute, Piteå, Sweden | 2006 | AS | space; transdiegesis; function; earcons; | |||
| Jørgensen | Kristine | A Comprehensive Study of Sound in Computer Games: How Audio Affects Player Action | Lewiston, NY: Mellen | 2009 | BM | perception; Warcraft III; Hitman Contracts; history; film music; diegesis; earcons; semiotics; transdiegesis; | |||
| Jørgensen | Kristine | On Transdiegetic Sounds in Computer Games | Northern Lights Vol. 5: Digital Aesthetics and Communication | 2007 | AP | transdiegesis; diegesis; extradiegesis; meta-communication; film music | |||
| Jørgensen | Kristine | Sounds and Sources in Sacred | Proceedings from Cosign 2004. Split, Croatia | 2004 | AS | function; semiotics; Fencott; Sacred; Chion; perception | |||
| Jørgensen | Kristine | Emphatic and Ecological Sounds in Gameworld Interfaces | In Miguel Mera, Ronald Sadoff, and Ben Winters (eds), The Routledge Companion to Screen Music and Sound (New York: Routledge), 72-84 | 2017 | AC | ecology; interactivity; diegesis; worlds; icons; earcons; sounds; dynamic | |||
| Kaae | Jesper | Theoretical approaches to composing dynamic music for video games | In Karen Collins (ed.) From Pac-Man to Pop Music: Interactive Audio in Games and New Media (Farnham: Ashgate), 75-92 | 2008 | AC | dynamic music; changes; mixing; segue; linearity; adaptive music; multi-linearity; time | |||
| Kamp | Michiel | Suture and Peritexts: Music Beyond Gameplay and Diegesis | In Michiel Kamp, Tim Summers, Mark Sweeney (eds.), Ludomusicology: Approaches to Video Game Music (Sheffield; Bristol, CT: Equinox) | 2016 | AC | paratext; peritext; suture; semiotics; Super Mario Bros.; Braid; Super Meat Boy; Max Payne; Battlefield 1942 | |||
| Kamp | Michiel | Musical Ecologies in Video Games | Philosophy & Technology 27/2, 235-49 | 2014 | AP | perception; James Gibson; ecological psychology; affordances; diegesis | |||
| Kamp | Michiel | Four Ways of Hearing Video Game Music | University of Cambridge | 2014 | DD | phenomenology; listening; ludic music; background music; ecological psychology; aesthetics | |||
| Kamp | Michiel | Ludic music in video games | Utrecht University | 2009 | DM (M) | http://dspace.library.uu.nl/bitstream/handle/1874/179576/Kamp,%20Michiel%20-%20MA%20Thesis.pdf?sequence=1 | ludic music; Juul; narrative; function; puzzles; music games; Caillois; fiction; rules | ||
| Kanamori | Shinya | Ryo Yoneda, Masashi Yamada | Congruency Between Music and Motion Pictures in the Context of Video Games: Effects of Emotional Features in Music | Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Music Perception and Cognition of the European Society for the Cognitive Sciences of Music, July 23-28, 2012, Thessaloniki, Greece | 2012 | AS | http://icmpc-escom2012.web.auth.gr/files/papers/505_Proc.pdf | psychology; congruency; experiment; pleasantness; excitation; semantic differential scales | |
| Kaneda | Miki | Rhythm Heaven: Video Games, Idols, and Other Experiences of Play | In Sumanth Gopinath, Jason Stanyek (eds.) The Oxford Handbook of Mobile Music Studies, Vol. 2 (Oxford Oxford University Press) | 2014 | AC | rhythm game; Rhythm Heaven; Game Boy Advance; racialized ideology; Japanese bodies; moving onscreen objects | |||
| Kärjä | Antti-Ville | Marketing music through computer games: the case of Poets of the Fall and Max Payne 2 | In Karen Collins (ed.) From Pac-Man to Pop Music: Interactive Audio in Games and New Media (Farnham: Ashgate), 27-44 | 2008 | AC | marketing; copyright; production; licensed music; authenticity; global; local; Max Payne 2; Poets of the Fall | |||
| Kassabian | Anahid | Ubiquitous listening | In David Hesmondhalgh and Keith Negus (eds), Popular Music Studies (London: Arnold), 131-142. | 2002 | AC | music technological cultures; modes of listening; subjectivity; technology | |||
| Kassabian | Anahid | The End of Diegesis As We Know It? | In John Richardson, Claudia Gorbman, Carol Vernallis (eds.), The Oxford Handbook of New Audiovisual Aesthetics (Oxford: Oxford University Press) | 2013 | AC | diegetic; nondiegetic; web sites; apps; new media | |||
| Kassabian | Anahid | Freya Jarman | Game and Play in Music Video Games | In Michiel Kamp, Tim Summers, Mark Sweeney (eds.), Ludomusicology: Approaches to Video Game Music (Sheffield; Bristol, CT: Equinox) | 2016 | AC | music games; rhythm games; Caillois; mobile phones; Tap Tap Revenge; ludology | ||
| Kassabian | Anahid | Roger Moseley et al. | Roundtable: Current Perspectives on Music, Sound, and Narrative in Screen Media | In Miguel Mera, Ronald Sadoff, and Ben Winters (eds), The Routledge Companion to Screen Music and Sound (New York: Routledge), 108-124 | 2017 | AC | narrative; film music; interfaces; VR; ludic challenge | ||
| Kayali | Fares | Gestural Interaction in Music Video Games | Digital Games: Theory and Design: conference at Brunel University, London, Great Britain, 09/14/07 | 2008 | AS | http://igw.tuwien.ac.at/fares/Fares_Kayali/publications/Entries/2007/9/14_Gestural_Interaction_in_Music_Video_Games_files/KayaliGesturalInteraction.pdf | music games; Guitar Hero; Electroplankton; perception; tangible interfaces | ||
| Kayali | Fares | Martin Pichlmair, Petr Kotik | Mobile Tangible Interfaces as Gestural Instruments | 5th International Music Workshop 2008, Vienna, Austria, 05/13/08-05/16/08 | 2008 | AS | https://igw.tuwien.ac.at/fares/Fares_Kayali/publications/Entries/2008/2/20_Mobile_Tangible_Interfaces_as_Gestural_Instruments_files/GesturalInstruments.pdf | tangible interfaces; perception; music games; game design; | |
| Kayali | Fares | Vera Schwarz; Gerit Götzenbrucker; Jürgen Pfeiffer; Barbara Franz; Peter Purgathofer | Serious Beats: Transdisciplinary research methodologies for designing and evaluating a socially integrative serious music-based online game | DiGRA '11 - Proceedings of the 2011 DiGRA International Conference: Think Design Play | 2011 | AS | music games; design; social integration; migrants | ||
| Kayali | Fares | Playing Music: Design, Theory, and Practice of Music-based Games | Vienna University of Technology | 2008 | DD | music games; game design; interviews; Otocky; Parappa the Rapper; Sim Tunes; Vib Ribbon; FreQuency; Rez; Guitar Hero; Electroplankton; Elite Beat Agents; Nintendo DS; interface; kinaesthesia; | |||
| Keesing | Aaron | Matthew Ooi, Ocean Wu, Xinghao Ye, Lindsay Shaw, Burkhard C. Wünsche | HIIT With Hits: Using Music and Gameplay to Induce HIIT in Exergames | ACSW 2019 Proceedings of the Australasian Computer Science Week Multiconference | 2019 | AS | https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=3290740 | exercise; sports; HIIT; virtual reality; health; exergame; psychology | |
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| Kizzire | Jessica | "The Place I'll Return to Someday": Musical Nostalgia in Final Fantasy IX | In K. J. Donnelly, William Gibbons, Neil Lerner (eds.), Music in Video Games: Studying Play (New York; London: Routledge) | 2014 | AC | Final Fantasy; nostalgia; 8-bit; analysis; Baroque music; Renaissance music | |||
| Knight | Tim | Mastering Sound and Music on the Atari ST | Berkeley, CA: Sybex | 1987 | BM | Atari ST; sound design; composition; 8-bit; technology; | |||
| Knoblauch | William | SIMON: The Prelude to Modern Music Video Games | In Michael Austin (ed.), Music Video Games: Performance, Politics, and Play (London: Boomsbury) | 2016 | AC | SIMON; hand-held; Hasbro; history; arcade games | |||
| Kohler | Chris | Power-Up: How Japanese Video Games Gave the World an Extra Life | Indianapolis: Bradygames | 2005 | BM | history; Japan; interviews; final fantasy; cinematic aesthetic | |||
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| Summers | Tim | Video Game Music: History, Form and Genre | University of Bristol | 2012 | DD | genre; history; aesthetics; culture; semiotics; speech-act theory; adaptive music | |||
| Summers | Tim | Dimensions of Game Music History | In Miguel Mera, Ronald Sadoff, and Ben Winters (eds), The Routledge Companion to Screen Music and Sound (New York: Routledge), 139-152 | 2017 | AC | genre; generations; audience; concerts; reception; technologies | |||
| Summers | Tim | Music across the Transmedial Frontier: Star Trek Video Games | In Michael Fuchs, Jeff Thoss (eds.) Intermedia Games—Games Inter Media: Video Games and Intermediality, 207-231 | 2019 | AC | Star Trek; transmediality; history; film music; television music; adaptation; science fiction | |||
| Svec | Henry | Becoming Machinic Virtuosos: Guitar Hero, Rez, and Multitudinous Aesthetics | Loading 2/2 | 2008 | AP | postmodern economics; performance; capitalism; Guitar Hero; Rez; empire | |||
| Sweeney | Mark | Isaac's Silence: Purposive Aesthetics in Dead Space | In Michiel Kamp, Tim Summers, Mark Sweeney (eds.), Ludomusicology: Approaches to Video Game Music (Sheffield; Bristol, CT: Equinox) | 2016 | AC | aesthetics; Dead Space; avant-garde; Krzysztof Penderecki; Alien; The Shining | |||
| Sweeney | Mark | Aesthetics and social interactions in MMOs: The gamification of music in Lord of the Rings Online and Star Wars: Galaxies | The Soundtrack 8/1-2 | 2015 | AP | aesthetics; aesthetic experience; gamification; social interaction; Lord of the Rings Online; Star Wars Galaxies | |||
| Sweeney | Mark | Analysing Crysis | University of Oxford | 2011 | DM (M) | dynamic music; mobile form; Crysis; analysis; topic theory; aesthetics; aleatoric composition; | |||
| Sweeney | Mark | The Aesthetics of Videogame Music | University of Oxford | 2014 | DD | https://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:70a29850-0c0d-4abd-a501-e75224fa856a | Ludomusicology; Aesthetics; culture industry; Kirkpatrick; play; aleatory; aleatoric; | ||
| Sweet | Michael | Writing Interactive Music for Video Games: A Composer's Guide | Boston, MA: Addison-Wesley | 2014 | BM | composition; interactive music; middleware; industry | |||
| Tafalla | Richard J. | Gender Differences in Cardiovascular Reactivity and Game Performance Related to Sensory Modality in Violent Video Game Play | Journal of Applied Social Psychology 37/9, pp. 2008-23 | 2007 | AP | psychology; DOOM; gender; violence; soundtrack; heart rate; blood pressure; stress | |||
| Tan | Siu-Lan | John Baxa and Matthew P. Spackman | Effects of built-in audio versus unrelated background music on performance in an adventure role-playing game | International Journal of Gaming and Computer-Mediated Simulations, 2/3 | 2010 | AP | Audiovisual; Auditory; Cognitive Load; Interactive; Multimedia; psychology; controller; sources of sound | ||
| Tate | James L. | A Link Between Worlds: The Construction of Nostalgia in Game Music and Final Fantasy IX | University of Surrey | 2017 | DM (U) | Final Fantasy IX; nostalgia; self-quotation; Nobuo Uematsu | |||
| Tessler | Holly | The new MTV? Electronic Arts and 'playing' music | In Karen Collins (ed.) From Pac-Man to Pop Music: Interactive Audio in Games and New Media (Farnham: Ashgate), 13-26 | 2008 | AC | MTV; Grand Theft Auto; licensed music; popular music; promotion; Steve Schnur; industry; marketing; copyright | |||
| Thomas | M. | Music in Video Games | The International Journal of Urban Labour and Leisure 6/1 | 2004 | AP | overview; industry; promotion; marketing | |||
| Thomas | Chance | Composing Music for Games: The Art, Technology and Business of Video Game Scoring | Boca Raton, FL: CRC Press | 2016 | BM | composition; interactive music; games industry; textbook | |||
| Tinwell | Angela | Mark Grimshaw, Andrew Williams | Uncanny Speech | In Mark Grimshaw (ed.), Game Sound Technology and Player Interaction: Concepts and Developments (Hershey, PA), 213-234 | 2011 | AC | human; characters; speech; virtual characters; uncanny valley; sound; lip-synch; human-likeness; facial expression; cross-modal; fidelity; uncanniness | ||
| Tobias | Evan S. | Let's Play! Learning Music through Video Games and Virtual Worlds | In Gary E. McPherson, Graham F. Welch (eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Music Education (Oxford: Oxford University Press) | 2012 | AC | music learning; music engagement; music education | |||
| Tonelli | Chris | The Temporary Avatar Zone: Pico-Pico Parties in Tokyo | In K. J. Donnelly, William Gibbons, Neil Lerner (eds.), Music in Video Games: Studying Play (New York; London: Routledge) | 2014 | AC | Pico-Pico; YMCK; Japan; popular music; performance | |||
| Tonelli | Chris | The Chiptuning of the World: Game Boys, Imagined Travel, and Musical Meaning | In Sumanth Gopinath, Jason Stanyek (eds.) The Oxford Handbook of Mobile Music Studies, Vol. 2 (Oxford Oxford University Press) | 2014 | AC | mobility; musical meaning; music scenes; Nintendo Game Boy; Gaston Bachelard; popular music; chip music; chiptune; Little Sound DJ | |||
| Toprac | Paul | Ahmed Abdel-Meguid | Causing Fear, Suspense, and Anxiety Using Sound Design in Computer Games | In Mark Grimshaw (ed.), Game Sound Technology and Player Interaction: Concepts and Developments (Hershey, PA), 176-191 | 2011 | AC | emotions; experimental; empirical; fear; suspense; anxiety; Darwinian; James-Lange; cognition; social constructivist; diegetic sound effects; volume; timing; source; synchronization; acoustmatic; untimed | ||
| Tsukamoto | Masanari | Masashi Yamada, Ryo Yoneda | A Dimensional Study on the Emotion of Musical Pieces Composed for Video Games | Proceedings of 20th International Congress on Acoustics, ICA 2010, 23-27 August 2010, Sydney, Australia | 2010 | AS | https://www.acoustics.asn.au/conference_proceedings/ICA2010/cdrom-ICA2010/papers/p918.pdf | psychology; congruency; experiment; pleasantness; excitation; semantic differential scales | |
| van Elferen | Isabella | Gothic Game Music: Hyperreality Haunted | In Gothic Music: The Sounds of the Uncanny | 2012 | AC | horror; gothic; Resident Evil; Silent Hill: Shattered Memories; Call of Cthulhu; uncanny; hyperreal; magic circle; Myst; Lost | |||
| van Elferen | Isabella | Sonic Descents: Musical Dark Play in Survival and Psychological Horror | In Jonas Linderoth (ed.), The Dark Side of Game Play: Controversial Issues in Playful Environments. | 2015 | AC | horror; dark play; Amnesia: The Dark Descent | |||
| van Elferen | Isabella | Analysing Game Musical Immersion: The ALI Model | In Michiel Kamp, Tim Summers, Mark Sweeney (eds.), Ludomusicology: Approaches to Video Game Music (Sheffield; Bristol, CT: Equinox) | 2016 | AC | analysis; affect; literacy; interaction; immersion; Dead Space 2; Amnesia: The Dark Descent; Remembering | |||
| van Elferen | Isabella | Perpetuum Mobile: Musical Virtual Worlds from Sound Recording to Videogames | In Nicholas Cook, Monique Ingalls, David Trippett, and Peter Webb (eds.), The Cambridge Companion to Music and Digital Culture | 2017 | AC | virtual reality; musical immersion; mobile music; affect; embodiment; drastic | |||
| van Elferen | Isabella | Un Forastero! Issues of Virtuality and Diegesis in Videogame Music | Music and the Moving Image 4/2 | 2011 | AP | virtuality; magic circle; flow; hyperreal; ludic; narrative; Guitar Hero; Resident Evil; intermediality; GPS; dynamic music; uncanny; diegesis | |||
| van Geelen | Tim | Realizing groundbreaking adaptive music | In Karen Collins (ed.) From Pac-Man to Pop Music: Interactive Audio in Games and New Media (Farnham: Ashgate), 93-102 | 2008 | AC | future; adaptive composition; | |||
| Villarreal III | Armando | The Effects of Music on Gameplay and Immersion | MIT | 2009 | DM (M) | experience; immersion; Gears of War; questionnaire; empirical; game design | |||
| Wang | Ge | The World Is Your Stage: Making Music on the iPhone | In Sumanth Gopinath, Jason Stanyek (eds.) The Oxford Handbook of Mobile Music Studies, Vol. 2 (Oxford Oxford University Press) | 2014 | AC | iPhone; app; mobile phone; mobile music; social music; physical interaction design; Smule; Ocarina; Sonic Lighter;Leaf Trombone: World Stage; Stanford University; CCRMA. | |||
| Weske | Jörg | Digital Sound and Music in Video Games | Online Research Website | 2002 | ER | http://3daudio.info/gamesound/ | history; technology; genre; dynamic music; interview | ||
| Western | Gary | Top Score: The Evolution and Significance of Video Game Music | CSU Monterey Bay | 2011 | AS | https://garywestern.files.wordpress.com/2011/04/garywestern_topscore.pdf | music games; history; function; technology; MIDI; culture; chip music | ||
| Whalen | Zach | Play Along - An Approach to Videogame Music | Game Studies 4/1 | 2004 | AP | immersion; function; cartoon music; mickey mousing; narrative; Super Mario Bros.; Legend of Zelda; Silent Hill; | |||
| Whalen | Zach | Case Study: Film Music vs. Video-Game Music: The Case of Silent Hill | In Jamie Sexton (ed.), Music, Sound and Multimedia: From the Live to the Virtual (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press), 68-81. | 2007 | AC | film music; musical function; silence; Silent Hill; horror; radio; static; adaptive music | |||
| Wharton | Alexander | Karen Collins | Subjective Measures of the Influence of Music Customization on the Video Game Play Experience: A Pilot Study | Game Studies 11/2 | 2011 | AP | http://www.gamestudies.org/1102/articles/wharton_collins | customization; customisation; experience; choice; psychology; Fallout; immersion; emotion; tactics; performance; playlist; personalisation; multiplayer; empirical; social | |
| Whitmore | Guy | A DirectMusic Case Study for Russian Squares for Windows XP Plus Pack | In Todd M. Fay with Scott Selfon and Todor J. Fay (eds), DirectX 9 Audio Exposed: Interactive Audio Development (Plano, Texas: Wordware Publishing), 369-386 | 2004 | AC | adaptive music; puzzle games; compositional challenges; sound examples; audio design; case-study; written by composer | |||
| Wilde | Martin D. | Audio Programming for Interactive Games | Oxford and Burlington, MA: Focal Press | 2004 | BM | how-to; music programming | |||
| Wilhelmsson | Ulf | Jacob Wallén | A Combined Model for the Structuring of Computer Game Audio | In Mark Grimshaw (ed.), Game Sound Technology and Player Interaction: Concepts and Developments (Hershey, PA), 98-130 | 2011 | AC | IEZA-framework; audio building; film sound; affordance; Murch; Gibson; Huiberts; van Tol; layering; encoded; embodied' cognition' functionality; loudness; frequency range; F.E.A.R.; Warcraft III; Legend of Zelda; tollset; production; structure; game design document | ||
| Williams | Duncan | Newton Lee | Emotion in Video Game Soundtracking | Cham: Springer | 2018 | BC | emotion; algorithmic composition; BCMI; cutscenes | ||
| Williams | Duncan | Jamie Mears, Alexis Kirke, Eduardo Miranda, Ian Daly, Asad Malik, James Weaver, Faustina Hwang, Slawomir Nasuto | A Perceptual and Affective Evaluation of an Affectively Driven Engine for Video Game Soundtracking | Computers in Entertainment 14/3 | 2016 | AP | https://cie.acm.org/articles/perceptual-and-affective-evaluation-affectively-driven-engine-video-game-soundtracking/ | dynamic music; algorithmic composition; procedural music; emotional congruence; immersion; World of Warcraft | |
| Winters | Ben | Idolizing the Synchronized Score: Studying Indiana Jones Hypertexts | In Miguel Mera, Ronald Sadoff, and Ben Winters (eds), The Routledge Companion to Screen Music and Sound (New York: Routledge), 513-542 | 2017 | AC | Lego Indiana Jones; film music; transmediality; John Williams | |||
| Wood | Simon | Video Game Music - High Scores: Making Sense of Music and Video Games | In Graeme Harper, Ruth Doughty and Jochen Eisentraut (eds), Sound and Music in Film and Visual Media: An Overview (New York and London: Continuum, 129-148 | 2009 | AC | Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell; adaptive music; narrative; states; film music | |||
| Wooller | Rene | Andrew R. Brown, Eduardo Miranda, Rodney Berry, Joachim Diederich | A framework for comparison of processes in algorithmic music systems | Generative Arts Practice (Sydney: Creativity and Cognition Studios Press), 109-124 | 2005 | AP | generative music; dynamic music; algorithmic music; composition; middleware; software design | ||
| Yamada | Masashi | Nozomu Fujisawa, Shigenobu Komori | The Effect of Music on the Performance and Impression in a Video Racing Game | Journal of Music Perception and Cognition 7, 65-76 (Japanese) | 2001 | AP | psychology; experiment; racing game | ||
| Youngdahl | Erik | Play Us a Song: The Structure and Aesthetics of Music in Video Games | Wesleyan University | 2010 | DM (U) | http://wesscholar.wesleyan.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1500&context=etd_hon_theses | aesthetics; experience; immersion; dynamic music; atmosphere; Legend of Zelda; PaRappa the Rapper; Rock Band | ||
| Zehnder | Sean M. | Scott D. Lipscomb | The Role of Music in Video Games | In Peter Vorderer and Jennings Bryant (eds.), Playing Video Games: Motives, Responses and Consequences (Mahwah, New Jersey and London: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Publishers), 241-258. | 2006 | AC | psychology; genre; empirical surveys; communication; perception; musical options; applied aesthetics | ||
| Zhang | Jiulin | Xiaoqing Fu | The Influence of Background Music of Video Games on Immersion | Psychology & Psychotherapy 5/4 | 2015 | AP | immersion; background music; questionnaire; King of Fighters |